Raggy's Gaming Adventures

Well, as promised, I have been working through the list and have managed to sit through Roman Holiday! I think this may be my favourite Audrey Hepburn movie to date. I am still not convinced she can really act as it seems her every character is this rather vacant girl who isn't really tuned in to the things happening around her... even when they have a direct impact on her. This is all well and good but most of the time I don't really see how it fits with the character. This is the most appropriate for that character. Everything about the fresh, delicate, porcelain beauty of Hepburn that has made Breakfast at Tiffany's so iconic is really much more appropriate in this film. The Princess of the fairy tale SHOULD be porcelain and perfect and a little lost by the events going on around her. With that, I have seen 70% of the top 250 of that time. Still got a few more to go... 75 Films still to watch: (Bold are on Netflix at time of writing) 52 Django Unchained (2012) ...

I recently found out about a Blood Bowl tournament that would be happening in my local gaming store... and then remembered that I had left all of my teams back in the UK. Oh well that simply means getting some more! This may seem excessive however Blood Bowl remains to this day one of my favourite games and it was my dream to build at least one of each team out there. This has been dampened somewhat by the increase in the number of recognised teams over the years but I have a fully painted Chaos Dwarf team and my trusty old Skumm Suckers Skaven team that have won me many a match. I have miniatures for large parts of many other teams and so I had to dig through my records of Blood Bowl figures to identify which teams I was lacking figures for and pick something... And here they are! My shiny new Wood Elf Blood Bowl Team: The Modryn Wanderers!!! Of course they are looking a little bland... but that is already starting to change! I have primed them with The Army Painter - ...

Well, Thanksgiving has been and gone. It is in fact my first Thanksgiving spent here in the US and I have very much enjoyed it. The idea of a holiday where you reflect on all the things you have to be thankful for, really is a fantastic idea. (We will leave aside the savage origin of the holiday and the horrific superficiality and undermining of the concept of Thanks that is Black Friday). I spent the holiday with my attention a little split as I was on call for work so having to cover a few issues as the holiday progressed. While I was not over eating / providing emergency support however - I was busy getting my yari ashigaru ready for war! Due to a lost leg early on in the process (several months ago now), I only have 99 of the 100 troops available but this is plenty to be getting on with. You may have seen a teaser photo a couple of weeks ago of loose parts in containers. Those were assembled torsos and legs. This long weekend I got arms, heads, banners and bases attach...

Whilst I was on my rotation in Mountain View two years ago, I started posting in my MTV blog about the movies I was seeing, mostly as a quick, easy way of generating some blog posts. With my resuscitation of this blog, my favourite blog and with the other blog moving focus to more food based interests; I have decided to move this segment to this blog for fills between wargaming and mini painting updates. With the Thanksgiving / Christmas season imminent, the timing is perfect for this revival. Looking back at the list, having largely ignored it for two years, it is really pretty disappointing to see that I have only seen one film on the list in that time. This does at least highlight the value of actively looking at the list and blogging about it seems to really drive me to watch these movies! Fargo - a loan from a friend back when I was in the UK. This is a Coen Brothers movie and as such I would normally dismiss it instantly however I did love this film. Bad stuff happening to im...